..In contrast to roughage, concentrates like CM are consumed rapidly with less intensive masseter muscle activity. This situation is associated with a low salivary flow that may have an adverse effect on gastric function...

Effect of feeding increasing quantities of starch on glycaemic and insulinaemic responses in healthy horses

..Results of this study suggest that the type of exercise influences Ca homeostasis and intact PTH response, but that these effects are not influenced in the course of the training period...

[Animal welfare in prevention and therapy of laminitis]

S WinkelsettDtsch Tierarztl Wochenschr 115:106-13. 2008

..Horses have to be treated with NSAISs to ensure a proper therapy to consider animal welfare. Horses have to be fed with hay and supplemented with minerals and vitamins. Feeding exclusively straw and feed restriction has to be avoided...

Calcium homeostasis and intact plasma parathyroid hormone during exercise and training in young Standardbred horses